2 January:TIA CARRERE = American actress and singer
4 January:BENJAMIN DARVILL = Canadian musician and singer–songwriter, member of Crash Test Dummies
7 January:MARK LAMARR = English presenter of radio and TV music programmes
9 January:DAVE MATTHEWS = South African-born American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band
14 January:STEVE BOWMAN = American rock drummer and songwriter. He was a founding member and drummer for the Counting Crows
25 January:AURELIO VOLTAIRE HERNÁNDEZ pka AURELIO VOLTAIRE or VOLTAIRE = Cuban-American singer, songwriter, musician, writer, cartoonist, animator, television director, and teacher
31 January:
MICHAEL JOHN BURKETT bka FAT MIKE = American rock singer and musician
CHAD CHANNING = American rock drummer with Nirvana {1988-1990}
6 February:IZUMI SAKAI = Japanese pop singer, songwriter, and member of the group Zard = [died: 2007]
11 February:CLAY CROSSE = American Christian musician
12 February:CHITRAVINA N. RAVIKIRAN = Indian composer and musician
17 February:CHANTÉ MOORE = American singer
20 February:KURT COBAIN = American musician, artist, songwriter, guitarist and poet, founding member of Nirvana = [died: 1994]
4 March:EVAN DANDO American musician, best known for fronting The Lemonheads
7 March:
RANDY GUSS = American drummer with Toad the Wet Sprocket
RUTHIE HENSHALL = English star of stage musicals
11 March:JOHN BARROWMAN = Scottish-American actor and singer
17 March:BILLY CORGAN = American musician, songwriter, producer, poet, executive, and professional wrestling promoter best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins
18 March:MIKI BERENYI = English singer, songwriter and guitarist. She was a member of the alternative rock band Lush
21 March:JONAS BERGGREN = Swedish musician, member of Ace of Base
29 March:JOHN POPPER = American musician and songwriter. He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler
12 April:SARAH CRACKNELL = English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the electronic music band Saint Etienne
14 April:BARRETT MARTIN = American drummer and composer
15 April:FRANKIE POULLAIN = British rock bassist, member of The Darkness
17 April:LIZ PHAIR = American singer and songwriter
20 April:MIKE PORTNOY = American rock drummer, member of Dream Theater
28 April:KARI WÜHRER = American actress and singer
1 May:TIM McGRAW = American country singer
6 May:MARK BRYAN = American musician, founding member of Hootie & the Blowfish
13 May:
CHUCK SCHULDINER = American singer and guitarist, founding member of the pioneering band Death = [died: 2001]
MELANIE THORNTON = American singer = [died: 2001]
18 May:ROB BASE = American rapper
22 May:MC EIHT = American rapper
23 May:PHIL SELWAY = English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the drummer of English rock group Radiohead
24 May:DWIGHT ERRINGTON MYERS bka HEAVY D = Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and the former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz
29 May:NOEL GALLAGHER = English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, member of Oasis
4 June:MARK CHARLES CHARD = British author of this website
7 June:DAVE NAVARRO = American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction and as a former member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
8 June:JASMIN TABATABAI = German/Iranian actress and musician
9 June:DEAN FELBER = American musician, member of Hootie & the Blowfish {1986-2008}
24 June:RICHARD KRUSPE-BERNSTEIN = German musician and guitarist of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well as the frontman of the band Emigrate
29 June:
MURRAY FOSTER = Canadian rock bassist, member of Moxy Fruvous
MELORA HARDIN = American actress and singer
7 July:JACKIE NEAL = American blues singer = [died: 2005]
12 July:JOHN PETRUCCI = American virtuoso guitarist
19 July:
ROBERT FLYNN = American musician, lead vocalist and guitarist for Machine Head
STUART HOWE = Canadian operatic tenor
22 July:
PAT BADGER = American musician, member of Extreme
RHYS IFANS = Welsh actor and former vocalist with Super Furry Animals and The Peth
27 July:JULIANA HATFIELD = American musician and singer-songwriter
28 July:TAKA HIROSE = Japanese musician, member of Feeder
21 August:SERJ TANKIAN = Lebanese-born American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and political activist with Armenian descent. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional live rhythm guitarist of the metal band System of a Down
22 August:
YUKIKO OKADA = Japanese pop singer = [died: 1986]
LAYNE STALEY = American rock singer, member of Alice in Chains = [died: 2002]
25 August:JEFF TWEEDY = American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the singer and guitarist of the band Wilco
29 August:ANTON NEWCOMBE = American rock musician, member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre
2 September:DINO CAZARES = American rock guitarist, member of Divine Heresy' and Fear Factory
6 September:MACY GRAY = American R&B, jazz and soul singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress
9 September:CHRIS CAFFERY = American guitarist and singer
11 September:HARRY CONNICK, Jr. = American jazz singer, pianist, big band leader, talk show host and actor
18 September:RICKY BELL = American singer, best known as one of the founding members of R&B/pop group New Edition, and as the lead singer of Bell Biv DeVoe
20 September:
GUNNAR NELSON = American singer
MATTHEW NELSON = American singer
21 September:
FAITH HILL = American singer, actress and record producer
GLEN BENTON = American rock singer/bassist, member of Deicide
26 September:SHANNON HOON = American singer, member of Blind Melon = [died: 1995]
28 September:MOON UNIT ZAPPA = American actress and musician
29 September:BRETT ANDERSON = English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede
2 October:BUD GAUGH = American rock music drummer who played in the bands Sublime {1988–1996}, Long Beach Dub Allstars {1997–2002}, Eyes Adrift {2002–2003}, Volcano {2004}, Del Mar {2006–present}, Sublime with Rome {2009–2011}, and currently Jelly of the Month Club
4 October:EKIN CHENG = Hong Kong actor and singer
5 October:JOHNNY GIOELI = American power metal singer
7 October:TONI BRAXTON = American R&B singer
8 October:TEDDY RILEY = American R&B and hip hop singer
10 October:MIKE MALININ = American musician best known for his work as the long-time drummer of the Goo Goo Dolls
17 October:RENÉ DIF = Danish singer, songwriter, DJ and actor, best known as the male vocalist of the Danish pop-dance group Aqua
19 October:TROY DIXON bka TROUBLE T ROY = American back-up singer for Heavy D & the Boyz = [died: 1990]
22 October:SALVATORE DI VITTORIO = Italian composer and conductor
26 October:KEITH URBAN = New Zealand-born Australian-American country musician
27 October:SCOTT WEILAND = American musician, singer and songwriter, member of Stone Temple Pilots = [died: 2015]
29 October:PÉTER KUN = Hungarian guitarist = [died: 1993]
30 October:GAVIN ROSSDALE = English musician
31 October:ADAM SCHLESINGER = American songwriter, composer and record producer. He is the bassist for the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy and Tinted Windows
1 November:
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS = American singer and songwriter
TINA ARENA = Australian singer and songwriter
3 November:STEVEN WILSON = English musician
7 November:
STEVE DiGIORGIO = American musician (bassist)
SHARLEEN SPITERI = Scottish recording artist and songwriter, lead singer of Texas
14 November:
LETITIA DEAN = English actress and singer
NINA GORDON = American singer
15 November:EARL STEVENS bka E-40 = American rapper
16 November:RONNIE DEVOE = American musician/singer, member of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe
20 November:TEOMAN = Turkish rock singer and song-writer
5 December:GARY ALLAN = American country musician
6 December:HACKEN LEE = Hong Kong singer and actor
9 December:JOSHUA BELL = American violinist and conductor
17 December:GIGI D'AGOSTINO = Italian DJ, remixer, singer and record producer
25 December:JASON THIRSK = American musician, member of Pennywise {1988-1996} = [died: 1996]
Date unknown:
GÁBOR TARJÁN = Hungarian composer
Timeline of Musical Events
The summer of 1967 is "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It also became an important year for psychedelic rock, with releases from The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour), Small Faces ("Itchycoo Park"), Eric Burdon & The Animals (Winds of Change), The Doors (The Doors and Strange Days), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's), Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), Love (Forever Changes), Cream (Disraeli Gears), The Rolling Stones (Their Satanic Majesties Request), The Who (The Who Sell Out), The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground & Nico), Procol Harum (Procol Harum), and The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold As Love).
15 January: The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Ed Sullivan's request, the band change the lyrics of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's spend some time together".
16 January: The Monkees begin work on Headquarters, the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material.
22 January: Simon & Garfunkel give live concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City. Some of this concert is released on October 4, 1997, on their box set Old Friends, but most is not released until July 2002.
30 January: The Beatles shoot a promotional film for their forthcoming single "Strawberry Fields Forever" at Knole Park in Sevenoaks.
3 February: UK record producer JOE MEEK murders his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at Holloway, North London.
6 February: Micky Dolenz of the Monkees flies into London. On this trip he sees Til Death Us Do Part on British TV and uses the term "Randy Scouse Git" from the programme for the title of The Monkees' next single release "Randy Scouse Git", not realising that it is an offensive term. British censors force the title to be changed to "Alternate Title" in the UK.
7 February: Micky Dolenz meets Paul McCartney at his home in St John's Wood, London, and they pose together for the press. His impressions of the visit feature in the lyrics of "Randy Scouse Git".
12 February: British police raid 'Redlands', the Sussex home of Keith Richards in the early hours of the morning following a tip-off about a party from the News of the World; although no arrests are made at the time, Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser are subsequently charged with possession of drugs.
14 February: Aretha Franklin records "Respect" at the New York based Atlantic Studios.
16 February: "Aretha Franklin day" is declared in Detroit, Michigan.
24 February: The Bee Gees sign a management contract with Robert Stigwood.
3 March: Eric Burdon & The Animals refuse to perform a show in Ottawa, Ontario, unless they are paid in advance. The audience of 3000 riots, causing $5000 in damages to the auditorium.
11 March: A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand includes their new music video for the songs "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
25 March: The Who perform their first concert in the United States, in New York.
27 March: John Lennon and Paul McCartney are awarded the Ivor Novello award for "Michelle", the most performed song in Britain in 1966.
30 March: The Beatles are photographed with a photographic collage and wax figures from Madame Tussaud's famous museum for the cover artwork of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at Chelsea Manor Studios in London.
31 March: Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time. He is taken to hospital suffering burns to his hands. The guitar-burning act would later become a trademark of Hendrix's performances.
8 April: The 12th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria. The United Kingdom wins the contest for the first time with the Bill Martin/Phil Coulter song "Puppet on a String", sung by Sandie Shaw.
13 April: The Rolling Stones' Concert in Warsaw.
May: – Paul McCartney reveals that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"
1 May: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin, Las Vegas.
2 May: In the United States, Capitol Records pulls the plug on the Beach Boys' mysterious Smile project. Brian Wilson, who had taken more than a year to compose and produce the album, could not bring himself to finish it.
12 May:
Pink Floyd stage the first ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall, England
The debut album of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced is released in the UK.
1 June: The influential album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released.
4 June:
Author of this site, MARK CHARLES CHARD is born in Crawley Hospital, England
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Denny Laine and his Electric String Band, Procol Harum and The Chiffons, perform in a two-hour "Sunday Special" at the Saville Theatre in London.
10-11 June: The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival at Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California featured The Miracles, The Byrds, Wilson Pickett, The Seeds, Blues Magoos, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Country Joe and the Fish and several others on the bill for a charity concert attended by 15,000; considered the first rock festival in some histories, but eclipsed in attendance and stature by the Monterey Pop Festival the following week.
16 June: Barbra Streisand performs live concert "A Happening in Central Park" in New York's Central Park.
16-18 June: The Monterey Pop Festival, the world's first large scale outdoor rock music festival, is held in Monterey, California. Stars include the Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Otis and the MG's take the stage at 1:00 am after Jefferson Airplane and bring down the house; 55,000 are in attendance.
19 June: During his stay in California on a houseboat in Sausalito, while listening to the Beatles' Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band, Otis Redding is inspired to compose "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay".
25 June: The Beatles perform "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World television special, the first worldwide television broadcast. Backing singers include Eric Clapton and members of The Rolling Stones and The Who.
28 June:
The Supremes perform for the first time as Diana Ross & the Supremes at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Florence Ballard is fired from the group after the first night, and on-hand stand-in Cindy Birdsong permanently takes Ballard's place in the group.
The Monkees fly in to London at the start of their concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley.
29 June: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are sentenced to jail for drug possession. They later appeal successfully against the sentences.
30 June to 2 July: The Monkees three concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley; Lulu also appeared on this tour.
1 July: William Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times, uses the phrase "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" in his editorial criticizing the prison sentences given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richard two days earlier.
2 July: Jeff Beck and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers perform in a two hour "Sunday Special" at the Saville Theatre in London.
3 July: The Beatles host a party at the Speakeasy Club for The Monkees on the completion of their concerts in London.
18 July: The Jimi Hendrix Experience is thrown off a support tour of The Monkees after complaints from the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution. (Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler later admitted it was a publicity stunt.)
29 July: Motown Records releases "Reflections," the first Supremes single under the group's new billing, "Diana Ross & the Supremes" and after the firing of founding member Florence Ballard; Ballard, nevertheless, sings on the record and appears on the vinyl's cover alongside group members Ross and Wilson as the song was recorded before her dismissal
14 August: The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act becomes law in the United Kingdom, and most offshore radio stations (including Wonderful Radio London) have already closed down. Only Radio Caroline North & South on 259 would continue. As Radio Caroline International
20 August: Cream fly to the US at the beginning of their concert tour.
23 August: Brian Epstein makes his last visit to a Beatles' recording session on 23 August 1967, at the Chappell Recording Studios on Maddox Street, London.
27 August: The Beatles, in Bangor, Wales with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are informed of their manager Brian Epstein's death, and return to London at once.
7 September: Eric Burdon marries Angie King.
17 September: The Doors appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and perform "Light My Fire". Sullivan had requested that the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" be changed for the show. Jim Morrison agreed, but ended up performing it the way it was written and The Doors are banned from the show.
30 September: The BBC replaces the Light Programme with a pop music channel, BBC Radio 1, and the more MOR-orientated BBC Radio 2. Classical music channel, the Third Programme, survives unchanged apart from its name, BBC Radio 3.
14 October: Tammi Terrell faints and collapses into duet partner Marvin Gaye's arms onstage during a performance at the Hampton University homecoming in Virginia. She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and would die from brain cancer in 1970 at the age of 24.
18 October: The first issue of Rolling Stone rolls off the press at about 5:30pm, with a cover dated November 9 and featuring a photograph of John Lennon in the film How I Won the War.
22 November: Otis Redding records "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay".
5 December: The Beatles open the Apple Shop in London.
8 December: Otis and the Bar-Kays play at a popular nightclub, Leo's Casino. This was to be Otis's last performance.
10 December: Otis Redding and four of the six Bar-Kays die in a plane crash in Lake Monona (Madison, Wisconsin). It was considered to be one of the worst air tragedies in entertainment history, and the worst since the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper air crash, 8 years earlier, in 1959.
26 December: First telecast of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, on BBC1.
Also in 1967:
A taped appearance by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. The band premieres their new music video for the song "Hello Goodbye".
Pickwick Records releases LP collection of ten 1950s A- and B-sides of singles by Simon & Garfunkel, recorded under their pseudonym Tom & Jerry, and tries to pass it off as current material by the duo. Simon and Garfunkel file a legal challenge, and the record is swiftly withdrawn from the market.
The Who destroy their instruments during a performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Toots & the Maytals releases "54-46 That's My Number", one of the first reggae songs
The Savonlinna Opera Festival is re-launched in Savonlinna, Finland, after a gap of fifty years.
The first LP recording of traditional Estonian music, Eesti rahvalaule ja pillilugusid, is released.
The International Society of Bassists is founded by Gary Karr.
Published Popular Music
"At the Crossroads" = lyrics & music by LESLIE BRICUSSE, from the film 'Doctor Dolittle'
"The Bare Necessities" = lyrics & music by TERRY GILKYSON from the film 'The Jungle Book'
"Blowing Away" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
"Bonnie and Clyde" = lyrics & music by CHARLES STROUSE
"Both Sides, Now" = lyrics & music by JONI MITCHELL
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" = lyrics & music by JIMMY WEBB
"Colour My World" = lyrics & music by JACKIE TRENT & TONY HATCH
"Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"Even The Bad Times Are Good" = lyrics by PETER CALLANDER; music by MITCH MURRAY
"The Eyes Of Love" = lyrics by BOB RUSSELL; music by QUINCY JONES
"Fortuosity" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN and ROBERT B. SHERMAN, introduced by TOMMY STEELE in the film 'The Happiest Millionaire'
"Gentle On My Mind" = lyrics & music by JOHN HARTFORD
"Happiness" = lyrics & music by CLARK GESNER from the musical 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'
"Hare Krishna" = lyrics by GEROME RAGNI & JAMES RADO; music by GALT MacDERMOT
"I Wanna Be Like You" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN and ROBERT B. SHERMAN, from the film 'The Jungle Book'
"I've Gotta Be Me" = lyrics & music by WALTER MARKS
"In the Heat of the Night" = lyrics by ALAN BERGMAN & MARILYN BERGMAN; music by QUINCY JONES. Theme song from the film of the same name, performed by RAY CHARLES
"The Look of Love" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH from the film 'Casino Royale', sung by DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
"Mrs. Robinson" = lyrics & music by PAUL SIMON from the film 'The Graduate'
"My Friend, The Doctor" = lyrics & music by LESLIE BRICUSSE from the film 'Doctor Dolittle'
"One Less Bell To Answer" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"Puppet on a String" = lyrics & music by BILL MARTIN & PHIL COULTER
"Springtime for Hitler" = lyrics & music by MEL BROOKS, from the film 'The Producers'
"Talk to the Animals" = lyrics & music by LESLIE BRICUSSE. Introduced by REX HARRISON in the film 'Doctor Dolittle'
"The Tapioca" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JIMMY VAN HEUSEN Introduced by JIM BRYANT dubbing for JAMES FOX in the film 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JIMMY VAN HEUSEN Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS in the film 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'
"To Sir, with Love" = lyrics & music by DON BLACK & MARK LONDON. Introduced by LULU in the 1967 film 'To Sir, with Love'
"What a Wonderful World" = lyrics & music by BOB THIELE & GEORGE DAVID WEISS
"You Only Live Twice" = lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSE; music by JOHN BARRY
Classical Music
JEAN ABSIL
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2
GEORGE CRUMB
Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II) for orchestra
GOTTFRIED VON EINEM
Violin Concerto
BENJAMIN FRANKEL
Viola Concerto
PHILIP GLASS
600 Lines
PAUL LANSKY
String Quartet No. 1
GYORGY LIGETI
Lontano
STEVE REICH
"Piano Phase"
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Hymnen
TORU TAKEMITSU
November Steps
Opera
YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA
Orpheus of Hiroshima
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
A Penny for a Song
CROMWELL EVERSON
Klutaimnestra (eng: Clytemnestra)
ELIZABETH MACONCHY
The Three Strangers
WILLIAM WALTON
The Bear
Musical Theatre
THE BOY FRIEND
(Sandy Wilson)
London revival opened at the Comedy Theatre on November 29 and ran for 365 performances
BY JUPITER
(Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Book: Rodgers and Hart)
Off-Broadway revival opened at Theatre Four on January 19 and ran for 118 performances
CURLEY McDIMPLE
(Music & Lyrics: Robert Dahdah Book: Mary Boylan and Robert Dahdah)
Off-Broadway production opened at the Bert Wheeler Theatre on November 22 and ran for 931 performances
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
(Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Book: Joseph Stein)
London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on February 16 and ran for 2030 performances
THE FOUR MUSKETEERS
(Music: Laurie Johnson Lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer Book: Michael Pertwee)
London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on December 5 and ran for 462 performances
OLIVER!
(Music, Lyrics & Book: Lionel Bart)
London revival opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on April 26 and ran for 331 performances
SWEET CHARITY
(Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Neil Simon)
London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 11 and ran for 476 performances
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 24th August 2011
Last edited: 13th September 2023
